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Message Notes:
Ezekiel 36:26
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. NIV
Renewed = To start new again. To be born again spiritually.
Transformed = The process of forming new habits and thoughts in a way that resembles your new start and new birth.
SERIES IDEA:
When you are saved, Jesus renews you spiritually into a new person.
After you are saved, Jesus empowers you to transform your heart and mind.
When Life Gets Difficult
When Depression Takes Control
When Fear Never Goes Away
When It Is Hard To Be Thankful
1. Jesus Loves Me … This I Know
John 15:13
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. ESV
2. Christ Also Suffered
1 Peter 3:13-18
13 Who is going to harm you if you are eager to do good? 14 But even if you should suffer for what is right, you are blessed… VS. 18 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. NIV
3. Keep It In Perspective
4. With Christ, We Need Not Fear Death Or Suffering
Romans 8:35-39
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?… For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. ESV
Psalm 118:6
The Lord is on my side; I will not fear. What can man do to me? ESV
God Uses The Difficulties To Transform Us
It is IN the tough times that God walks us through the process of TRANSFORMATION
Exodus 13:17-18
Israel’s Wilderness Detour
17 When Pharaoh finally let the people go, God did not lead them along the main road that runs through Philistine territory, even though that was the shortest route to the Promised Land. God said, “If the people are faced with a battle, they might change their minds and return to Egypt.” 18 So God led them in a roundabout way through the wilderness toward the Red Sea. NLT
Matthew 4:1
Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. NIV
James 1:2-4
Faith and Endurance
2 Dear brothers and sisters, when troubles of any kind come your way, consider it an opportunity for great joy. 3 For you know that when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow. 4 So let it grow, for when your endurance is fully developed, you will be perfect and complete, needing nothing. NLT
CLOSING STATEMENT:
When you are saved, Jesus renews you spiritually into a new person.
After you are saved, Jesus empowers you to transform your heart and mind.
If you prayed the prayer to start fresh with God today text “startagain” (one word) to 97000 so we can connect with you and help you take the next steps in this amazing decision.
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